Which Hat Are You Wearing? Risks and Fallout When Board Members Confuse Their Roles
Alex Moss will particpate in this panel with Elizabeth A. Di Cola (EDiCola Consulting), Natasha Daniels ((USCB, Inc.), and Renee Lewis (Polsinelli)
Learning Objectives:
- Define the various roles played by directors inside and outside the boardroom and explain the different responsibilities and duties attendant to each role
- Understand the need for directors to be clear about the "hat" they are wearing in the boardroom and identify what attitudes and actions would constitute a confusion of roles.
- Describe the potential negative outcomes when directors fail to align their decisions and activities in the boardroom to their duties and responsibilities as fiduciaries.
From Vision to Action: How ESOP Leaders Use Principles to Drive Aligned Decision-Making
Linshuang Lu will present this session with Susan Kildahl (NHS Northstar, Inc)
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key differences between rules-based and principle-based decision making and recognize how each impacts alignment and engagement in an ESOP environment.
- Apply a practical framework to translate a company's vision statement into clear, actionable guiding principles for decision making.
- Implement strategies to embed principle-based decision making into daily operations, enabling employee-owners to make aligned, independent decisions.
The Meaning Gap: How Leaders Shape or Squander the Promise of Employee Ownership
Linshuang Lu will present this session with Ed Carberry, PhD (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how employees construct meaning around employee ownership and describe how those meanings connect to specific behavioral expectations for yourself and others in the organization.
- Identify leadership practices that most powerfully shape how employees make meaning of ownership, including aligning and communicating leadership's vision, creating opportunities for employees to discuss ownership, sharing information, and fostering employee contributions to business improvement.
- Assess the alignment between the meaning of employee ownership for leaders and for employees and identify at least two actions to strengthen that alignment within your own organization.
